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Jim Allen's Community (1973) on the top floor sculpture court of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Seventies Auckland Avant-Garde

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Group show

Groundswell: Avant-Garde Auckland 1971-79

 


8 December 2018 - 31 March 2019

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Richard Frater Solo Show

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Richard Frater
Indifference

 

23 January - 23 February 2019

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Christina Pataialii, Solid gold, 2018 (install view), photo by Sam Hartnett

Pataialii Installation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Christina Pataialii
Solid Gold

 


1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019


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Deborah Rundle, Optimism of the Will, 2018, (detail) two fluorescent tubes, battens, vinyl cut text, courtesy of the artist

Paean to Gramsci

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Deborah Rundle
Are We Not Ready?

1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019

APW

Blackley Publication

Roger Blackley


Galleries of Maoriland:
Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880-1910


Auckland University Press, October 2018

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The installation of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES' Asia is for Poor Slobs, 2014, at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Language Fusillade

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language


24 November, 2018 - 24 February, 2019


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The Latest ‘White Fungus’

Taipei

White Fungus #16

 

Edited by Ron Hanson
Art directed by Mark Hanson

Published in Taipei, Jan 2019

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A Digression is Not a Distraction

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

distracted-reader
Time to Think Like a Mountain



Issue #3, Split / Fountain 2018

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Sydney-based Art Journal

diˈvan: A Journal of Accounts (Art / Culture / Theory)

Issue #4

Edited by Alan Cruickshank


Published by diˈvan and University of NSW Art and Design, July 2018


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The Eighth ‘Reading Room’

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture

 

Issue #8: Politics in Denial

 

Edited by Christina Barton, Natasha Conland, Wystan Curnow

 

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2018

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Robert Sabuda. Peter Pan: a pop-up adaptation of J. M. Barrie's original tale. New York: Little Simon, 2008.

Books Containing Paper Sculpture

Sir George Grey Special Collections Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero, Central City Library

 

Auckland

 

Books from Sir George Grey Special Collections
Playful: Pop-up Books

 

12 December 2018 - 3 March 2019

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George Rump, Still-Life Pictures as installed at Window. Photo: George Rump

Static Non-Moving Pictures

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

George Rump
Still-Life Pictures

 

14 December 2018 - late February 2019

 


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Sweet Yellow Intoxicant

The Audio Foundation with Wiggley Tapes

Wellington/Auckland

 

Wendyhouse
Banana Wine

 

Comic with CD

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Jerome Ngan-Kee, New/Content, detail, as installed at Mercy Pictures. Photo: the artist

Interpretation and Trust

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Jerome Ngan-Kee
New/Content

 

13 December 2018 - 31 December 2018

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Jerome Ngan-Kees, New/Content (detail) at Mercy Pictures

Jerome Ngan-Kee at Mercy Pictures

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Jerome Ngan-Kee
New/Content

 

13 December - 31 December 2018


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Installation of Andre Hemer's Day Paintings at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Dissolving Method Categories

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Andre Hemer
Day Paintings

 

28 November - 22 December 2018

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Paul Cullen, Fainting Couch, 2012, detail, in Gallery Two of St Paul St. Photo: Paul Cullen Archive.

Cullen Sampler

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Paul Cullen
Building Structures +

24 November - 15 December 2018

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Taniela Potelo, Vea Mafile'o's sons Talavou and Malosi, Julian Hooper, Tevita Latu, and Marlowe Hamilton. Photograph by Vea Mafile'o.

Notes from a Seleka Workshop

CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE

Auckland

 

Julian Hooper and Tevita Latu
Over the Water

 

14 December 2018 - 10 February 2019


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Robyn Maree Pickens, 'Respect the Rāhui' as installed as Te Tuhi Billboards. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Building Time Capsules

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Robyn Maree Pickens
Respect the Rāhui

 

1 December 2018 - 10 March 2019

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Michael Shepherd's 'Suppose The Future Fails' as installed upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Apocalyptic Maelstrom

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Michael Shepherd
Suppose the Future Fails

 

30 November - 22 December 2018

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Classically Composed Improv

Rattle Records

Auckland

 

Eve de Castro-Robinson, with various musicians

The Gristle of Knuckles 2018